Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-05-10
NEWS AND NOTES.


Gas at IS cents q thousand pays hand
some profit In England.
T. L. Frank, a naturalized Chlnaman,
has asked the New Haven authorities to make
him a constable.
Cincinnati is making an early move to
obtai the national conventions, which will be
held in a little over year.
The arrivals at Florida hotels in the
recent season amount to IS. 400, which shows a
diminutlon, a, com pared with 1886, of about
1000.
During the years 1883, 1884, 1885 and
1886 the government of New South Wales paid
out $l,S07 400 in bounties for the heads Of 1885,
1871 rabbits.
There is on exhibition in Atlanta q
single of Georgia pine that has been on a
smoke house near Washington, Ga, since 1885,
1t is perfectly sound.
Miss Elizabeth Garrett, sister of the
president of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad,
is worth about SlS,OO0,O 600, and is q very bright
and business like woman.
Mrs. Mark Hopkins paid out $3.50, 900
for the construction Of church at Great Bar
rington, Mass, and she pays the preachers
salary. Her own house there viii cost s.. O0O,-
900.
The Lowell Courier claims to have con-
structed the following ingenious palindrome ::
''No, 1t is opposition" A palindrOme is a SEN
tence that reads the same forward and back
ward.
1t never rains but it pours on the farm
of Ntyron Huskings of Maple Grove, Mich. The
other day Mrs. Huskings gave birth to triplets,
two of his ewes TO five lambs, and the family
cat to seven kittens
SO sharp is the competition between
real estate dealers in Los Angeles, Cal, that
they offer rem 1rkabe inducements to pur
Chasers. One of them adyertises that every
purchaser of a lot from him will be vaccinated
free of charge.
DR.. Albert Kellogg, who died short
time ago at Alameda, Cal, was an associate of
to the United States, and he Wasthe bOtanist of
the first government expedition TO Alaska
after the purchase of that territory.
Under the new election laws in Kansas
no tickets can be distributed or vote solicitors
and workers allowed within fifty feet of any
polling place. The idea is to prevent the BAN
bOOzling and bulldozing of voters and to enable
the voter to cast ballot without immediate
supervision
A statement prepared at the pension
Office shows that during the month of April
there were 399 pension certificates issued,
classified as follows: Original pensions, 5543
increase pensions, 5347; Mexican tensions, 500.
Thi. is said to be the largest number issued in
any one month in the history of the bureau.
1t costs just SIC, 100000 to support the
twenty two royal princely families of Ger
many. 1t costs Turkey Sl6,O0O.O0 Russia
comes third with an annual cost of 12,2j0000.
England costs 81 5000 00 Spain, s., U00, 000
France pays her President $3.50, 900 for salary
and household expenses The Swiss Republic
pays its President $4,000 per year.
the l cent piece is reported to be win
ming favor in New Orleans after many years of
being discarded. The Times Democrat de-
Clares that "a large number of houses are now
willing to accept it and make their change aC-
cOrdingly, and the publicis willing TO reCog-
nize that the cent is of some value after all.
| Strange to say, as at the beginning of this
movement, the small dealers still hold back"
A Milwaukee telegram says: Moritz
Moses, the son of 2 Jewish rabbi, has surprised
his relatives by joining the Catholic church.
Last week he was bsptised by the Rev. 2.
| Decker of the 81. Anthony's church, on the
| South Side. His father is highly respected
rabbi at Gelheim, Bavaria, while his sister is
married to NJ. L. Goldschmidt of the Adams
Manufacturing Company of this city. The
| young man, who is but twenty three years of
| age, boards with an orthodox Catholic family,
and his relatives attribute mis- step TO his rela
| lions thereby formed.
| An Essex man has the biggest appetite
! in all Massachusetts, if not in the United
states. He eaUs vast quantities of food, but all
| to no purpose for he is & owing weaker and
| him, and once, at the advice of one of them, he
| abstained for fifty two hours from eating any
| thing. But the suffering during that period
! was most intense, and, finding he could stan d
| 1t no longer, he stared In and ate continually
| for twenty seven minutes as fast as he could
| bolt down the food. Then he walked out into
re-entered the house and repeated the opera
| ton of a few moments before. At the end of
| the second meal he was still hungry, but was
| afraid to eat any more.
An ingenious scheme by which Chinese
| fraudulently evade the provisions of the Chi
nese restriction act and obtain landing In San
Francisco has been discovered. A Chinese res
| ident calico at the dOck where the steamer City
of Sydney, on which another Chinaman, who
HOLDS no return certificate, Is detained, and
asked permission to give his cOuntryman q
loaf of bread. The suspicion of the Gus
toms inspector was aroused and the loaf was
closely examined. 1t was found to contain
| Chinese VIZ item document, giving full in
structions TO the detained Cinnamon to be tenn
porarlly landed By q writ of habeas corpus, and
how to answer questions regarding his previous
residence, so as to be permitted 10 remain in
the United States when taken before the fed
ersl judge, The Chinaman who attempted to
convey the bread aboard the steamer escaped
arrest by flight.
Paris telegram tells how an order of
secrecy has been extended to embrace all citi
Zens not actually under arms. No one, IN er
pass the gates OF any fortress or barracks with
ont escort. All supplies brought into
quarters are to be rigidly inspected
by officers specially detailed fot the
service and passed on under guard. The mo-
tive of this IS said to be the recent publication
French frontier fOrtresses, and other facts re-
Iating to the disposition of French troops and
the changes in the arrangements for the de-
Tense of the frontier. The thing, 1t seems to US,
shows the inevitability of war between these
two powers. Indeed, they are at war to-day,
in al the expense of maintenance and watch
fulness. The only change in the situation will
be that of actual hostilities, with their attend
ant blooIshed.
Granville Got It